I suppose the biggest issue right now is that the weaknesses of berserker don’t show up in most PVE.
A long time ago I mentioned in a thread evaluating defensive stats vs. offensive stats that the weakness of the glass cannon was medium-high sustained damage. Low sustained damage can be largely ignored by everyone, and high bursts of damage can be mitigated easily through blocks and dodges. If you have a reliably sustained damage, then zerker builds feel the pressure immediately and have to back off or they go down. This, ultimately, is why it is that zerker isn’t overpowered in PVP. Even when fighting against a player with PVT gear, their constant tactical use of offensive skills and auto attacks makes it so zerkers are receiving a large amount of damage back.
There is good news here, though: Anet is already designing content with high sustained damage. The Aetherblades are a fine example of this, since they have attack chains instead of attacks, and don’t push all of their offense into single skills. Molten Alliance was another example of an enemy group that was like this. Guards, mercenaries, and NPCs in WvW are like this as well. Fact is, I expect future content to continue to go up in quality like this.
They can do better, too. Enemies that attack rapidly are good because they encourage build diversity and also make confusion more useful. But Anet can do more. Anet should make it so enemies heal themselves, making stuns and poison more useful. Enemies should apply more boons to themselves on high cooldowns, making boon hate more useful. Enemies should alternate between ranged and melee weapons so you can’t just kite them everywhere. Enemies should have blocks that counterattack hard, encouraging players to watch their enemy and use unblockable skills.
In essence, PVE should be more like PVP.
I don’t have opinions. I only have facts I can’t adequately prove.
